Leading international subsea equipment solutions specialist Ashtead Technology has strengthened its management team with the appointment of Tim Sheehan as commercial director. The appointment, which is a new position, comes as part of the company’s strategy to expand its global service offering which includes rental equipment, calibration, repair and maintenance, offshore personnel and bespoke engineered [...]
Halliburton announced the opening of its new Technology Center at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Technology Park, located at Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The center provides the setting for collaboration as the Company works with the country’s leading universities and customer research groups to establish a global center of [...]
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Technip inaugurated its Innovation and Technology Center located in France, close to Paris, on a unique site in Rueil-Malmaison. Patrick Ollier, Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison, and Thierry Pilenko, Technip’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, were both present for the occasion. This center already brings together more than 50 managers and specialists of subsea technologies necessary to [...]
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Aberdeenshire-based oil services firm ThinJack is to showcase its leading technology to current and prospective clients through two open days in 2013. On June 5th and 7th, between 10 am and 12 noon, the company will demonstrate its unique technology at the premises of Subsea Technologies Ltd in Aberdeen, giving visitors the opportunity to see [...]
Kongsberg Underwater Technology, Inc. announced today that it has successfully completed negotiations with the University of Washington’s Center for Commercialization to obtain the sole rights to produce, market and continue the development of Seaglider ™ technology. Seaglider™ is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) system developed at UW’s School of Oceanography and Applied Physics Laboratory with [...]
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An investor in the future of engineering, Sonardyne International Ltd. has recently made a substantial donation to the Alton College Fundraising Appeal for a new Engineering and Design Technology Centre. The donation brings forward the Centre’s building completion date to Autumn 2013 and will enable the college to teach 310 students a year, inspiring young [...]
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This week saw Vector Technology Group Subsea Division deliver its solutions for the Marine Well Containment System Project in the GOM. The scope of supply was to design, manufacture, assemble and test two safety systems to connect two free standing risers at the top and bottom locations that could be deployed in the GOM in [...]
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Chief Technology Officer, Prith Banerjee, who joined ABB in 2012, has decided to leave ABB for family reasons. He will be relocating to the United States where he will be taking another position outside the company. A successor will be announced in due course. “Prith has brought new momentum to ABB’s research and development activity,” [...]
Experts from the offshore energy industry around the world came together 6–9 May for the 2013 Offshore Technology Conference at Reliant Park in Houston. Attendance at the conference reached a 30-year high of 104,800, the second highest in show history and up 17% from last year. Attendance surpassed the 2012 total of 89,400 and the [...]
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On Thursday, May 9, Petrobras ended its participation in the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), in Houston (USA), with a technical session on subsea technology systems. In addition to the ongoing projects and those undergoing testing, the Company presented the outlook for this segment. The OTC is the world’s largest offshore oil exploration and production event. [...]
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